CHICKEN

Have you ever been called a chicken or a coward?  No one I know desires to be called a coward or a teetotaler, nor any of the other mocking names one is called when they stand firm for God’s standard of right and wrong.

The word “chicken” is used to slur and belittle the person who refuses to fall in line with the group.  Unquestionably, it takes real strength and an iron will to stand for convictions against the crowd.  When one brave soul of convictions was told that the whole crowd was against him, he simply replied “Then I’m against the whole crowd.”

If the slur “chicken” causes you to give up your persuasion and become a conformist, it is then that you actually become “chicken,” a weakling so weak that you can be scared and handled like a chicken. All truly great people have learned to be different from the run-of-the-mill type of humanity.  It takes much more courage to stand alone than it does to run with the crowd.

Pilate, the governor that tried Jesus, let the crowd infamously control him.  He had some conviction but not enough.  During the trial his wife sent a message to him, warning him not to listen to the multitude’s clamor.  He was afraid (chicken) and thus sided with the crowd.  His wife tried to get him to hear another voice, the voice of right.  Nearly everybody has someone that is trying to get him or her to hear the voice of right.

The major concern should not be the smear from the smearers but he possibility of becoming one of them.

“My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.”     (Proverbs 1:10)     ~ Leroy Brownlow

“Solitude is strength, to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness.  The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”    ~ Brunton

Eileen Light